an anecdote            
                                          
 today it rained,  and i would go outside 
 i thought, so i  smoked a  pipe and  got 
 dressed,  and  outside   the   rain  had 
 turned  into snow  so thick that  it was 
 as dense fog ... and  then i went to get 
 the mail,  but there was a woman  and we 
 talked a  little. now because i was high 
 and it  was snowing so  funny and  i had 
 an umbrella against  the snow,  but snow 
 all over  my face anyway, and i wondered 
         about myself, and my life